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Lubbock’s $153M Buddy Holly Hall Due to Open in 2020 By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
Named for legendary singer-songwriter, the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences will serve as a catalytic project for downtown redevelopment when it opens in Lubbock, Texas, in 2020. The $153 million project will create close to 1,200 jobs from construction efforts alone, and host an estimated 250,000 visitors annually. “The Lubbock community has dreamed of a performing arts center for more than 30 years,” said Michelle Stephens, marketing director, Lubbock Entertainment/Performing Arts Association (LEPPA). “It’s absolutely thrilling for our community to see the construction efforts going on each day, as this dream becomes more and more realized.” Buddy Holly Hall is located in the heart of downtown Lubbock, and is easily accessible from the Marsha Sharp Freeway and I27. The more than 200,000 sq. ft., state-ofthe-art facility is expected to have a dramatic impact on the entire area. “It will change the face of entertainment and visual and performing arts education across the South Plains. Having a 2,200-seat, world-class theatre in Lubbock will allow Buddy Holly Hall to bring in top Broadway shows, entertainers and performers, comedians and musicians from all over the world.” Buddy Holly Hall is designed to be a true performing arts campus, which will house a ballet school, a bistro and the Lubbock Independent School District’s (LISD) fine arts programs, serving over 24,000 Lubbock students enrolled in fine arts classes. Sixty-
one percent of the 29,000 total students enrolled are socio-economically disadvantaged. “Having LISD as a permanent resident of Buddy Holly Hall and the only school district to call Buddy Holly Hall ‘home’ adds further tribute to the legacy of Buddy Holly, a 1955 LISD graduate and member of the Lubbock High School choir,” said Stephens. Ballet Lubbock is another anchor tenant of Buddy Holly Hall, occupying a 22,000sq. ft. dance facility inside the building. The dance center will contain the entire operation of Ballet Lubbock, including six studios, parent and community space, production areas and administrative offices. The new location will allow them more than double the space of the current location, and will be closer to the communities served in north and east Lubbock. LEPAA photo
The $153 million project will create close to 1,200 jobs from construction efforts alone, and host an estimated 250,000 visitors annually.
Council. Over the decades, the dream never died, and continued to surface in city planning and imagining efforts. In 2013, the Imagine Lubbock Together committee thrust the idea of a performing arts center LEPAA photo back into the limelight as a cornerThe more than 200,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art stone of downtown Lubbock redefacility is expected to have a dramatic impact velopment. Later that year, LEPAA on the entire area. was established, and development The idea of a performing arts center in and fundraising efforts began for a new perLubbock began in the 1980s with the munic- forming arts center. ipal arts committee of the Lubbock City “The Lubbock community has been
tremendously supportive of Buddy Holly Hall. Upon completion, Buddy Holly Hall will be the largest privately-funded effort across the South Plains,” said Stephens. “All funds for construction have been raised through the incredible generosity of Lubbock citizens, businesses and area foundations.” Stephens noted that Buddy Holly Hall is built for the community, by the community. “I hope each person who attends a performance or event at Buddy Holly Hall is see HALL page 12
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